Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published May 5, 2026· Updated May 5, 2026
CVE-2025-13618
CVE-2025-13618
Description
The Mentoring plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.8. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting the roles that users can register with in the mentoring_process_registration() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register with administrator-level user accounts.
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References
3News mentions
2- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (May 11, 2026 to May 17, 2026)Wordfence Blog · May 21, 2026
- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (May 4, 2026 to May 10, 2026)Wordfence Blog · May 14, 2026